Clockwise from top, refugees prepare to relocate as U.S. planes and special forces begin an assault in northern Afghanistan in October of 2001. Young girls look in awe at foreigners in an Afghan market. A cow wanders through a cemetery near a Northern Alliance command center. Bombs from a U.S. B-52 kick off an assault […]
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They didn’t know her, but they knew her iconic photo. And they knew her story well. So when Fumiko Hayashida celebrated her 100th birthday this week with two other centenarians, she was treated as a celebrity. It had been her sad face in the now-famous, Seattle Post-Intelligencer photo from March 30, 1942, the day the […]
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Today from the seattlepi.com archive we share the story of Seattle’s first streetcar – one that started service 127 years ago Friday. The streetcar was pictured near what’s now Second Avenue and Yesler Way, though conflicting dates have been associated with the photograph. The P-I’s first known printing of the streetcar image came Sept. 23, […]
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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, people in offices and schools and towns and coffee shops share stories over a common question: Where were you when you found out about the attacks? Seattle’s then-Mayor Paul Schell was in his car that Tuesday morning when he got a call from a staff member about the […]
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Iconic clown J.P. Patches – the fictional mayor of the city dump who arguably has a higher approval rating than the real Seattle mayor – may retire, and his appearance Saturday at the Evergreen State Fair was one of his last. “I think this is going to be my last year of getting out and […]
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Twice a month, experts at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture answer your questions in a column called….

“When a three toed footprint fossil is found in sandstone in Washington, how can you tell if it is a dinosaur/lizard or a large bird? We have recently had Diatryma footprints found in Whatcom County. They look very similar to the dinosaur footprint we saw at the Burke last Friday.”

Bartell Drugs has a slogan that says the business has been trusted around here since 1890. Today from seattlepi.com’s Seattle history archive we share some images going back almost that far. George Bartell Sr. was born in Junction City, Kan., and moved to Seattle in 1887 at age 19. Three years later, he worked at […]
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Scientists have one more reason to think an asteroid strike wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That reason: the discovery of young Triceratops bones in Montana.

Young, in this case, is still tens of millions of years old. But the fossils, either from a Triceratops or a Torosaurus, were discovered in a relatively young layer of rock.

And that proves dinosaurs will still alive and kicking around the time scientists believe a massive asteroid struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Eventually, the fossils could help disprove the theory that when the asteroid struck, dinosaurs were already on the verge of extinction due to climate change and other natural factors.

Today from seattlepi.com’s Seattle History archive we share a photo history of University Way Northeast – better known as The Ave –with help from property record images stored at the Puget Sound Branch of the State Archive. Most of the images shown are from the 4100 and 4200 block. It’s interesting to see how several […]
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The mysterious death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart might serve as a warning to those studious musicians who spend hours toiling away perfecting their craft.

The gist of the warning: Some of that toiling really should be done outside in the sunshine.

Lack of vitamin D may have led to the death of the famous composer, according to researchers still trying to pin down the reason Mozart died when he was just 35.

Retired NASA physicist William Grant touted the theory that Mozart suffered from a vitamin D deficiency in a letter to the journal Medical Problems of Performing Artists. A recent article suggested that excessive loss of blood might have killed Mozart, considering how doctors during that time often bled patients — and that Mozart was constantly ailing.